What A Great Summer!

Today is Tuesday July 26th. We are still struggling to find our niche and to make enough money to actually "make ends meet". As it is, we are able to cut the middle out and stretch the ends together, which keeps the whole thing pretty tense. Donna has started doing photography professionally. She is SO good at it that I know if people find her she will be very successful. I have been providing music (DJing) for weddings and parties. Kids are loving summer. Lots of swimming etc.

We are attempting to buy our house without much luck. I have lived my life like an explosion; lots of force, chaotic energy, no particular direction and the fallout has been extensive. My credit is such that when I applied for a loan, the loan officers needed inhalers to stop laughing. The house is old and dumpy, but it fits our huge family nicely, and it is warm. If you have read some of the other news postings here, you know how important a warm house is in the winter.

On the music front I am receiving some pretty fantastic reviews at garageband.com and have been selected to participate in a special program from garageband.com which will be featured on 178 Clear Channel radio stations around the country. I should get some decent exposure from this and might actually sell 10 or 20 CDs!

As for recording and my studio, six months ago I decided that I could no longer stand to work on PCs. The viruses, spam and spyware were killing me. I made the jump to Mac but have been very dissapointed with the outcome. While ProTools may be the "recording industry standard" that doesn't make the software any better. Brittany Spears is loved by millions, but she still stinks in my opinion. So it is with ProTools. While it may be powerful, it is so convoluted that people take courses to use the software.

I recorded my first album on PCs using Cool Edit Pro (now known as Adobe Audition) and it was an effortless joy. The software is powerful, intuitive and stable. It also uses standard wav files so I can export my project to virtually any other system. Mac is not like this. While I love Mac for almost every other use, music is the most important thing I do on a computer, so I am going back to what I know and love. Hopefully the next album will be done before Christmas.

Immortal CDs are available at Amazon.com, Cdbaby.com, Bandtrax.net and you can buy the songs individually on Itunes.

Hope to have live shows to tell you about soon.

Val